1. Leon Robinson (Derice)

Usually credited simply as 'Leon', he played the group's de facto leader Derice Bannock. Four years previously, he played the Jesus-like St Martin de Porres in Madonna's then-controversial music video for 'Like a Prayer'.

Leon later said of his most famous role: "The film was scheduled to be done a year before. I got cast and signed on to do the movie, and then they didn't do the movie. So they had to go ahead and postpone it, and then they brought it back with a new director the following year, and I had to go through the whole casting process again even though I was already cast previously and paid."

Since then, he's continued to appear in many TV shows and movies, but Cool Runnings remains his best-known role. He played David Ruffin in a 1998 TV movie about The Temptations, and Little Richard in a 2000 biopic. He appeared in several episodes of prison drama Oz, and featured in the 50 Cent movie Get Rich or Die Tryin'. He has also made music, and is the frontman for the reggae-soul band Leon and the Peoples.

2. Doug E Doug (Sanka)

Actor, comedian, director and writer Doug is still best known for playing Sanka, the joker in the pack with his trusty lucky egg.

Speaking about the role years later, Doug said: "I was sent the [first] script and I was quite frankly bored by it. My family's from Jamaica and it's quite an extraordinary story, but a dramatic take on it just didn't work for me. Apparently they decided to revisit the idea of a comedy and I was sent the script, read it, and I didn't really think much of it.

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"I tried to push my heritage. Like most auditions, I didn't know if any of that was working. Then I got a call to do a screen test at some undisclosed location. It was really like a hush, hush project."

Three years after the movie, he joined the cast of Bill Cosby's Cosby series from 1996 to 2000. In 2002, he had a supporting role in the (actually pretty good) B-movie Eight Legged Freaks.

He also had a voice role in Shark Tale, and in recent years has appeared in episodes of Blue Bloods and Law & Order: SVU, and currently stars in the Netflix comedy drama Brown Nation.

3. Rawle D Lewis (Junior)

Rawle had little acting experience before joining the movie as Junior, the shy son of a millionaire. He later said: "I came in to this film at first to coach the players in the authentic accents, but then I was asked to do a screen test – so here I am."

He hasn't had many roles since then, but he continues to act and perform as a stand-up comedian. He had a small role in the Kevin Spacey movie K-Pax, and featured in the TV mini-series Clinical Trials in 2015.

4. Malik Yoba (Yul)

Malik has proved to be the most successful star of the four bobsled boys, after playing Yul Brenner.

Speaking about the role, he said: "I think I was the last person on the last day. I went down there and did some improv. They called me back about eight months later and said there's a new director, we'd like you to come in again. I was pretty indignant because I felt like I had the taste of it and it went away, so I was like, 'I'm busy'. And then I was convinced to fly back out to LA."

Soon after the movie, he landed a starring role as NYPD Detective J C Williams on the Fox police drama New York Undercover, and he has since played FBI Special Agent Bill Harken on the Syfy drama series Alphas, Jim Hudson in Revolution, and Vernon Turner in Empire.

Most recently, he had a main role in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor opposite Kiefer Sutherland. He has also had one-off appearances in the likes of The Good Wife, Person of Interest and Arrested Development.

5. Peter Outerbridge (Josef)

Peter famously played the baddie-turned-friend Josef Gruhl, the leader of the German bobsled team.

He said of the part: "I was the stereotypical Eastern European. Josef Gruhl was like your East German bad guy, so I did my thickest bad German accent. I didn't make any effort to try to do a correct German accent.

"I did my best to find a German accent on a cartoon show and imitate that. I'm sure the Germans who saw the movie were probably very offended by the way I was speaking."

He has continued to star in many TV shows and movies since then, and is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Tasarov in the CW action series Nikita, as well as Dr David Sandström in the TMN series ReGenesis, Henrik 'Hank' Johanssen in Orphan Black, and William Easton in Saw VI. He also played the lead role of Detective William Murdoch in a three-episode mini-series of The Murdoch Mysteries.

He also reunited with Malik in Designated Survivor, and had recurring roles in 24 and 12 Monkeys.

6. John Candy (Irv)

Sadly, Cool Runnings was one of John Candy's last ever roles. He died at the age of 43 from a heart attack just a year after the movie came out.

Before Cool Runnings, Candy became one of the best loved comedy actors thanks to films such as Stripes, Splash, Summer Rental, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, as well as dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK.

One of his most renowned performances was as shower-curtain ring salesman Del Griffith in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles opposite Steve Martin.

He was due to voice a turkey named Redfeather in the 1995 Disney movie Pocahontas, but following his death, the character was scrapped.